~9 years later~
{Narrator POV}
In a private training room a tall man with grey tattooed skin and large pointed horns is sparring with a combat droid. His tall crown of horns lit up with a blue and green shine as he narrowly blocked a slash at his left side with his training saber, while using the other saber to swing for the droids knee. Having no option to block the droid jumps back in an attempt to create some space.
Unfortunately for the droid the man uses the force to speed up his movements and closes the distance quickly. Successfully landing a rapid onslaught of attacks against the poor droid, up, down, left, right it's as if there were no end to them.
Seeing a gap in the mans, defence the droid sharply capitalises on the opportunity cleaving his saber towards its opponents head, but before it could reach the man locked both his lightsabers in an 'x' shape blocking the saber aiming for his head.
Before the droid could do anything else, he kicks the droids knee joint knocking it off balance while pushing his locked lightsaber to the side with his immense physical strength. As the droids lightsaber is pushed to the side, he span round and brought the right handed lightsaber across the droids neck successfully destroying the droid.
Switching his training sabers off he picks up the decapitated droids heads and brings it over to the body that was currently sprawled out over the floor.
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{Lycan POV}
"Good hustle mate, I'll get you fixed up in a jiffy" I said while begging to fix the droid with the tools on my utility belt.
"Master you really need to be more careful, this is the third time today you've fixed me" the body complained in a masculine voice. The sound matrix is installed in the torso of the droid so it could still talk to me while I fixed it.
"I know Wire but I can't help but get too excited when you give me such a good fight" I replied while reconnecting wires.
"I suppose that's true Master Lycan, I do have the best combat programming in the order" Wire said while sounding proud of its self.
"Whatever man just remember who programmed you when you hit the big leagues" I spat sarcastically as I rolled my eyes at the pretentious droid.
"Relax Master I would never leave my maker unless you told me too".
Wire was a holodroid I made over the years that I spent here. Back when I first came the others in my clan were a pain in the ass to speak to, you know being young kids and that so I either spent my free time with extra training or building him.
I had to get Vos, and sometimes even Shaak Ti and Plo Koon to bring me droid parts and bits of software I needed whenever they visited me. Still even with all their help it still took me 3 years mixed of failed attempts to get the droid working. It was so fucking annoying when I first started because I had never done anything like it before and kept building and programming it wrong, but eventually I got the hang of it and it then ended up being my favorite pass time when I wasn't training or reading shit at the jedi archives.
Nowadays if I set Wire to his highest combat setting he would well and truly stomp me in a pure lightsaber duel. The precision and skill he has with a the blade is unreal, which is why training with him such good practice. He can even use a blaster with some skill which makes it easier to train my deflection abilities on something more realistic than those flying spheres.
Over the years I've learned the basics of every lightsaber form but leaned towards form 5 and 7 with 2 lightsabers or a saberstaff. I wouldn't call myself a master yet but from the settings I normally use on Wire, I'm pretty sure I could hold my own against an average jedi knight. Sadly I've not been able to test out that theory yet since I've only ever been able to spar against the other younglings in my clan.
During my time spent training here I met Mace Windu a few times while I was looking through the archives, if he wasn't busy I would pick his brain about the lightsaber technique and if he could teach me. At the start all I got was a straight rejection but eventually after talking about what the ritual done to my body's rage preceptors and how I was still able to be calm even though the slightest thing should set me off, Windu agreed to let me learn the technique under his strict supervision. The training for it was brutal, it was mostly Windu training my technique through sparring where he wouldn't hold back as he gave the excuse 'Your opponents won't hold back just because you are young'.
During the spars he would do his best to rile me up to prepare me for letting an opponent's hate run through you, he said that once you starts to draw upon your enemy's anger and hatred there's a chance you could let I cloud your vision, therefore you had be extremely disciplined to use Vaapad. Eventually after much training the Jedi master deemed me worthy of being taught the ways of his lightsaber technique, and so he taught me how to draw upon an opponents emotions to strengthen yourself and redirect it back at your enemy.
Other stuff I've been looking into is force abilities, all members of the order have access to basic information in the jedi archives, and somewhere within that information is recordings of many force abilities that jedi use. Other than the basics of force manipulation like telekinesis, force augmentation and mind tricks which the instructors drill into you during class time. I've been trying to learn other abilities that would be useful in the field such as force repulse, force valor, force speed, force heal and electric judgement for the light sided abilities.
While also learning the more dark sided variants of telekinesis, force lightning, and some basic force destruction that definitely isn't combat ready. The last abilities I've been working on it tutaminis and teleportation, one of which is a far cry from being done.
The telekinesis abilities were easy enough to learn once you got the hang of it, the only difference was in the way you executed them. The physical augmentation was the easiest for me that shit just came naturally, after I read how to perform the technique it was like regaining something I always had. Going for the overkill in the physical abilities department I learned force Valor which kicks my already amazing physique into overdrive, the only drawback is that it uses a lot of energy so I can't use it in the long run.
The dark side abilities were more difficult to learn since I couldn't access the information in the archives and had to learn it myself. I've still not got force destruction down and probably wouldn't have learned force lightning if it weren't for Plo Koon teaching me electric judgement. That guy's such a sound cunt, just had to walk up and ask him to teach me and he was happy enough to do so. No bullshit trials or nothing, he just straight up taught me no strings attached.
Defos gonna try and save him when order 66 hits. While he was teaching me I'd ask him about tutaminis since the archives didn't make sense to me and I got pointers on that as well.
Space fold though I've no clue how I'm going to learn it, the archives have jack shit and the only person that knows how to use it is always off on missions so there's no progress there. And I only learned force heal so I don't end up looking like a pensioners wrinkly foreskin form using dark side abilities, not that I think it'll happen anyway if my theory's correct but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
Along with my space wizard training, I've been working out like fuck to get this body extra ripped while testing out what this physiques truly capable of. I'm already 6'2 at 13 and will probably grow another few inches before I stop and have a body totally stacked with muscles from head to toe. From tests I've gathered that this body can heal any minor injuries perfectly but anything worse would still leave a scar, so sadly no deadpool antics like growing my arm back after getting it cut off and no I never cut myself, fuck that only masochist martial art wankers do that. All the injuries I've gained have been from spars and accidents from practicing force skills.
After finishing up fixing Wire I heard the doors to the room side open. Turning around I saw a Young woman with red skin, green eyes and deep blue hair tied back into a messy ponytail striding towards me with a smile on her red lips. On her was a form fitting pair of black leggings and a deep blue crop top underneath a large black padded jacket with its zip undone at the front.
This was Laila a female Zeltron that was brought to the jedi order not long after her birth on the planet of Zeltros. She's the youngling I've bonded with the most in the clan since she's pretty cheerful and can take a joke without running away crying after I take the piss. Her species are very sensitive to emotions and are able to sense the emotions of people around them making them a very empathetic species that has a strong dislike for sad emotions as it can some times overwhelm them, therefore they try and make everyone around them happy.
The first time we spoke to each other was because she felt my fluctuating emotions after I was just finishing from training my darkside abilities. This caused the little zeltron to attempt to fix my mental state by bringing me to have some food with her, and no I'm not that big an asshole that I'd tell a kid to fuck off just because she was trying to be helpful. Ever since that day we would usually have lunch together and after a while I even started to help with her training, letting her use Wires, if I was with her.
I also might've planted a few seeds in her mind about the jedi order being not as admirable as they said they were, and over the years the sentiment was solidified due to becoming inured to it over time. Not to the level where she would fall to the darkside but she was more of a Qui-Gon Jinn, as she wouldn't blindly follow the teaching of the order if she didn't agree with their take on something.
"Lycan you better hurry up and get your stuff ready, we're leaving in half an hour and the escort wants us there early for a head count" she nagged at me while crossing her arms.
"Aye right I get it, stop nagging me woman. I was just fixing up Wires" I explained to her. "You could've avoided that if you didn't get so excited during your spars, you know relishing fights isn't the jedi way" she teased while raising an eyebrow. Rolling my eyes at her I tell Wires to head over to my room and wait for me coming back.
"As you wish master" standing up to leave, while walking past Laila he says audibly "Make sure to look after him Laila, who knows what he could get up during the gathering" getting a small chuckle to escape her lips.
"Fuck you Wires, honestly I don't know how you can be such an ass when I was the one who did your programming" I sighed while shaking my head. Getting a punch on the arm that probably hurt her more than me she said "You need to stop swearing all the time, one of these days you'll get in trouble with the council for it".
"Whatever doll, if it comes to that I'll just roll with it, I mean what are they gonna do, exile me?" grabbing my large padded black jacked and slinging over my shoulder I begin to leave the room with Laila smiling next to me thinking about the upcoming gathering where we will finally get our lightsaber crystals.
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After arriving at the ship that will be taking us to Ilum with Laila, I see the rest of the younglings in my clan gathered up next to the ramp of the ship. This included Ahsoka , Knox and a bunch of extras that no one cares about.
Standing with the younglings always felt weird since I was around a foot taller than all of them, it makes for a pretty funny scene too onlookers. Around 2 minutes of standing and waiting, our escort for the gathering arrived, it was Nahdar Vebb, a Mon Calimari padwan apprenticing under the jedi master Kit Fisto a.k.a the guy that got blasted by grievous on live stream.
Vebb tells us, "Younglings, today is the day where you will create your lightsabers" followed by ensuing excitement from the majority of the younglings. "Now, can one of you tell me what the most important part of a lightsaber is?" he asked us.
Knox replies "The most important part of the lightsaber is the cyber crystal sir" Vebb give him an approving nod "That is correct, this ship will ferry us to the planet Ilum where all of you will be sent too collect a kyber crystal for your very own lightsabers".
"Now come on the faster we get on the ship the faster we'll get there" following this most of the younglings excitedly pushed there way onto the ship. Getting on the ship from the back of the crowd was me, Laila, Knox and Ashoka.
Ashoka asked us with a grin on her face "You guys excited to finally get your own lightsabers", with a fanatic look Knox replies "You bet I am, I'll get my cyber crystal and build my saber no problem. And when the apprentice tournament happens I'll show the masters how good I am".
Damn someone's motivated, I all seriousness though Knox is a decent enough guy. It's just that he admires the jedi way too much, no joke I wouldn't be surprised if he's had a couple wet dreams about becoming a padawan already.
"Whatever Knox, but you know you'll have to beat me if you want the masters attention." Ashoka on the other hand is similar to how she was in canon, although she's less arrogant now. Don't get me wrong she's still cocky as hell but it's in a more competitive way she expresses it, mostly to wind people up. I doubt that when the clone wars hit she'll let her arrogance cloud her judgement in combat situations.
Truly though she has the right to be arrogant, if it weren't for me she'd be the best in this clan hands down. She can even match me at times if we compare purely lightsaber technique, Knox and Laila are good but Knox is just that, and Laila seems to want to be more of a support jedi knowing skills such as force healing, force light, force barrier and revitalise. It's quite the impressive resumé even if her lightsaber combat it lacking slightly because of it.
Turning to me Ashoka asks "What about you big guy, you excited about getting your crystal".
"A little bit" I reply with a small smile. This elicits a jab in the side from Laila as she says "Come Lycan, I know your excited"
And too fucking right I was, who wouldn't be if they were this close to getting a laser death sword that can stab through just about everything.
"Guess your right, but you won't catch me fangirling like a little bitch in front of all yous."
Getting a round of shook heads for my swearing we finally made it to some seats on the ship. From a seat down the front I hear Vebb shouting "Strap in, younglings once we jump to hyperspace it'll take us a couple of hours till we reach Ilum so get comfortable."
Looking at the other 3 round the table I pull out a deck of cards, shuffling them I ask "Who wants dealt in then?"
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After trouncing a few amateurs at cards for a couple hour we see the ice planet Ilum from the ships windows. All I could think was how fucking cold it was going to be. Sure with this body it wasn't going to be that bad, but before I transmigrated I hated the cold with a passion and living in Scotland it was freezing most of the year plus the rain made the cold 10 times worse than it already was.
And now just to get a magic crystal I have to run around in a cave that's most definitely below freezing. You could tell I wasn't in the best of moods.
"Cheer up Lycan" Laila says while rubbing my back, "Shouldn't you be happier about reaching Ilum? We're this close from getting our crystals".
Looking down at her I responded "It's no the crystals I'm concerned about it's the temperature, I can feel the cold from up here" adding another shiver to prove my point.
"Come on, I thought you were tougher than this" and that ladies and gents was all it took for me to get my act together. Straightening my back I looked at the planet once more and said "Too right I am, I'll get my crystal rapid style so I can chill back at the ship next to the heater" earning a giggle from Laila.
When the ship landed the boarding ramp opened up and settled down in the cold snow, striding down the ramp me and the rest of the clan were taken to a massive wall of ice by Vodd and asked to help him open the passage way. Using the force we moved the ice to reveal the entrance to the temple and guess who we met inside.
Honestly I've no clue what his goal was coming her before us, like is it not better we share the same ship and save money instead of yoda coming here himself. Whatever what do I know, maybe he wanted to look mystic or some shit.
Walking up to yoda the padawan bows and moves to the side to allow Yoda to speak.
"Younglings, come for you to collect your cyber crystals, the time has. Your crystal, you must trust in yourself, to find" nodding sagely Yoda uses the force to move the massive crystal on the roof allowing it to do that mad cool light bouncing thing. As the light beam melts the ice door Yoda advises "The door will freeze over again, and you will be trapped, as daylight ends".
Stolen novel; please report.
And of course some daft cunt asks "BuT wHaT wIlL wE dO iF wE dOn'T gEt BaCk In TiMe", like mate its fucking ice. You don't even need the force to break that shit just give it a few jabs and it'll break.
The jedi must say shit like that as a scare tactic so that the younglings feel pressured to find the cyber crystals or something.
"Trapped inside, for a whole rotation, you will be" Yoda replies to the youngling. "Wait, you should not, find your crystal, you should" As he says this the majority of the clan sprinted in and started running around like heedless chickens.
"Are we all going to split up, or do you want to stick together till we find our own crystals?" said Laila as her eyes ran across the 3 of us.
I told them my opinion "I don't mind we should find our crystals either way".
"I'm fine with that" "Same here" Knox and Ashoka both spoke. Deciding on that, the 4 of us head into the cave to look for a cyber crystal.
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Entering through the door, snow ice and rock came together to make a beautiful scene in the cave. The light reflected against many things, giving wherever you looked a bright shine. We followed the main path down the cave while taking in the view as we went.
Eventually we came to a room where the path ahead splits up into 3 different sections. Surrounding the pathways were surrounded by stone door frames that looked very antiquated, but still had an ancient charm too it from all the patterns and runes craved all over them.
"The path splits up here I think we should split up and find our crystals separately" Ashoka stated.
"How will we pick which path we a going to take?" Knox asked. Thinking for a few seconds I tell them, "I have an idea" and walked over to stand in front of the 3 doorways. Taking a deep breath and pointing my finger at one of the doors.
"It, bit, bird, shit, hairy, fanny, juicy, tit, you are, going, to, be, it" before my finger finally landed on the doorway to the right.
"Well I'm taking this door" I decided while looking back at the three of them to make sure they knew.
Ashoka didn't seem impressed with my display and argued "Lycan I thought you were being serious here, what happened to letting the force guide you".
"I'm being dead serious, that's the path I'm taking so yous better hurry up and pick one so we can find our crystals and leave already" I said as I began to walk down my chosen path.
After a few moments I could hear the pitter patter of footsteps coming from behind me, before I could turn my neck to see who it was the person already reached my side.
"Laila how'd you end up picking this path?" I questioned.
"Not sure, I just felt like the right one to pick" she replied. That's about as good an answer I'd get considering the force was involved.
As we strode down the path I couldn't help but wonder what trial I would end up getting from the cave. It's not as if I've got any blaring weaknesses, unless you count an extreme dislike for cold weather but I doubt that would be a problem since being here would already count as a trial to overcome.
It also made me think about how the cave even does shit like trial, like is the cave sentient or is it the crystals that make the cave sentient, man star wars is filled with lots of unexplained shit like this. For all I know it could be the tiny green fella moving the cave about from where he's sitting just to take the piss, I wouldn't even blame him for it imagine being nearly a thousand years old and spending most of it with the jedi. Fuck that noise.
Reaching a wide open space with a mini lake covering the opposite side from the one we are on splitting the room into two halves, with icicles looming over our heads that spread over the entire length of the room. It gave the area an untouched feeling as if it had been forgotten about for decades.
Looking across too the other side off the room our eyes are attracted to the 3 brilliant white shining crystals that were held within a block of ice near the middle of the frozen lake.
Finally these kyber crystals showed up, I was wondering if we were going to have to bust out the ice door because we were so late in finding them.
"Laila you seeing what I'm seeing" I said with a big grin on my face, but after a few moments there was still no response. Looking next to me I see Laila with an expression of abject horror on her face. This surprised me as I've rarely seen her sad never mind horrified at something.
Gently resting my tattooed hand on her shoulder I ask her calmly "Laila what's wrong, you don't look so good". She looked at me with a fearful expression on her face and quickly tore my hand off her shoulder and put some distance between us.
"Stay away from me" she stammered with a nervous expression on her face. If I was to guess what was happening, I'd probably this rooms done something to her that's made her suddenly fearful of me.
Standing in place for now I raise my hands in the air to show that I mean no harm, "It's ok I won't move" I calmly stated while trying my best to put a gentle look on my face. "Why don't you tell me what's so we can fix the problem.".
Taking several deep breaths Laila spoke "I... I cant feel anything from you. My senses feel empty"
Still not understanding I questioned "I still can't understand what you mean. Is it your senses that have been dulled or?".
"Its... your emotions, I can't feel them, it's like my mind's been cut off from everything".
So that's the problem, this area must've cut off all of her species telepathic abilities. That'll be rough for her since she's never experienced anything like it before. What she's feeling would be similar to if a human was suddenly prevented from seeing and hearing, no wonder she's so terrified.
"Laila listen to me" I insisted as I carefully walked towards her. "You can trust me you know. Do you think I'd do anything to you just because you can't sense how I'm feeling" me saying this evokes a complicated look to appear on Laila's red face.
Getting closer to her, "Think about how much time we've spent together over the years, have I ever done anything that would hurt you". Standing in front of her I knee down slightly and gently place my hand over her head.
"Tell you what, if not being able to feel how I'm feeling right now bothers you so much. Why don't we get those crystals quickly and leave this place." I comforted her while stroking my hand through her deep blue hair."
As I comb her hair Laila's eyes begin to water slightly and she pulls me in for a tight hug. Resting her head on my lowered shoulder. "It's fine now Lycan, if its you I won't need my powers too feel safe here."
Woah woah woah hold the fuck up. I think this place might've broke her, don't get me wrong a cute girl giving me a hug doesn't bother me. It's just she's a bit young for me to be relishing the moment. When she gets a bit older I'll totally be down for all the cuddling she wants, but for now I still need to be weary about the intergalactic FBI.
A few moments later "As much as I enjoy this, don't we have some crystals to get" I smirked at Laila, making her skin turn a deeper shade of red as she eventually let go.
"Sorry about that" she squeaked.
"Don't worry doll, was my pleasure but what's the plan for getting those crystals. I won't be able to get across the ice without breaking it and I'd probably freeze to death if I fell in that water." I told her, getting a thoughtful look to appear on her face.
"I think I'm light enough to cross over the ice but it'd be a problem to break the ice that's holding the cyber crystals" She replied.
"Wait her for a second and I'll go get something for it" leaving the area I returned to the rocky hall and approached one of the stalagmites. Sizing it up for a moment I give it a solid punch that cracked the tip off before bringing it back and handing it to Laila.
As much as I didn't want someone else to touch my crystals in case of complications I said "Use this and just pick away at the ice till the crystals come out" getting a nod as a reply she begins to slowly edge across the frozen lake.
The walk across was mostly safe, with a few subtle crack appearing on the surface of the ice but Laila made her way safely across the the block that was holding the crystals. Holding on to the side of the ice she began to chip away at the ice.
After several hits the first crystal was visible, Laila tore the it out of it's ice casing and put it in her jacket pocket. As she does this the ice she was standing on began to visibly crack, spreading across a good portion of the lake giving her a fright and causing her to speed up her efforts of removing the crystal.
Watching this happen from where I was standing I quickly shouted to my companion "The ice holding the cyber crystals is holding the entire sheet of ice together" causing her to stop for a moment to look over to me. "Just come back over and I'll find another set of crystals"
As much as I wanted those crystals, it would be worth it if Laila fell in the freezing water. I might be an asshole but not on the level I'd risk my friends life just to get something. Only sith pussies do that kind of stuff.
Surprising me Laila reprimands me saying "Lycan if you want these crystals you'll have to trust me as much as I trust you. Have faith that'll I'll be able to get them, and the ice breaks I trust you'll be able to stop me from falling into the water".
She's got a fair point there, bit off a dick move from me after I said all that shit about trusting her a few minutes ago. Deciding that if the ice breaks I'd just catch her with telekinesis I told her to continue.
The second crystal that came out caused the ice to become even more unstable, making me ready my arms to prepare for catching her. Slowly but surely she chipped away at the ice over the third and final crystal. Every strike caused the ice's crack to worsen making my heart clench in my chest, I don't know why I was so scared since I knew it should be and easy task to use the force to lift her, but the fact that if I drop her she could die made my palms sweaty.
When the last cyber crystal was freed Laila swiftly grabbed it, as she done this the ice beneath her free finally cracked open prompting me to use the force to surround her can drag her over to me. Dropping her at my side I was filled with a sense of relief, while Laila just seemed pleased at getting the crystals safely.
"See I knew you would save me" she said with a smile of happiness and getting a similar smile from me.
"Catch" as she tossed over two of the three crystals into my grasp. Pocketing them I told her "Right, lets get back to the ship already, it's fucking freezing in here".
On the trip back out the cave we came across a trapped Ashoka stuck in a deep hole struggling to get out. Giving each other a quick look we go over the the edge of the pit to speak to her.
Laila shouts down "Ashoka do you need some help!" moments later a similar shout returns saying "No I'm fine I'll escape myself this must be my trial."
Shaking my head I bellowed down "There's not much time left before the door closes, you'll be stuck here if you don't get out in time"
Getting no reply in turn I look at Laila to get her opinion on this, when she nodded I leaped down the hole to go and talk some sense into her. As I land Ashoka angrily told me "Lycan why'd you jump down, now you'll be stuck as well".
"Doesn't you saying that mean you've admitted that your stuck" getting an embarrassed look to show on her face. "Don't worry about me I can just jump out no hassle. It's you that me and Laila are concerned about".
"But I've already got my crystal what if it disappears or something if I get help from you" she stated.
"Losing your crystal after already getting it just because of getting help sounds a bit daft does it not. Listen there's no harm in getting help if you can't do something, isn't helping each other out the jedi way or some shit."
Ashoka is silent for a few moments as she lets my words settle in before looking me dead in the eyes and asking "What's your plan then". Walking over to her I whisper in her ear the plan getting a startled response from the aspiring padawan, "You sure that's safe" giving her an assuring look I say "Should be as long as my aims decent".
"Laila you ready!" I yelled up to her, getting a shout back to confirm I tell Ashoka to get ready. Standing at he bottom of the ice wall Laila was at the top of I get into position, clasping my hands in front of me and leaning down a bit I nod to Ashoka to say I'm ready.
She begins to run towards me at high speed before jumping and using my clasped hands as a springboard. As she lands on my hand I use my strength to lift push her up and send her flying towards Laila who grabbed Ashoka's hands and pulled her too the top.
Seeing that she made it up without any accidents I channelled the force into my muscles and leapt up to where they were standing.
"Thanks for helping me you two, sorry for, err being so difficult" Ashoka say bashfully while her eyes drifted around the room, allowing Laila to grab her hand and say "Don't worry about it, that's what friends are for" as she gives her a cheerful smile.
"Right lets boost out of here before the entrance closes" I told them as we started to jog towards the exit.
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Slipping under the closing ice door with both Laila and Ashoka. We are met by Yoda and a few other members of the clan that have already collected their cyber crystals. The atmosphere was tense at the moment since the younglings weren't sure if everyone would make it out before the door freezes over.
This just goes to show how daft these younglings are, they can do some magic with the force but the can't use their brains, shit like this makes me think that they should've incorporated a common sense class into the youngling training as well. They only had us studying every other thing in the galaxy.
Another thing I was wondering was how the fuck Yoda's not froze to death already, the man's not even got a jacket on for fuck's sake. He's just chilling out on the ground not giving a fuck about the temperature. Respect where respect is due though, that's some hardcore shit.
A few moments later I saw Knox get under the almost closed door, making it out with his crystal just before the entrance freezes shut behind him. Standing up Knox comes over to greet the rest of the clan with a smile on his tentacled mug.
With Knox being the last one out Nahdar Vebb calms everyone down and turns to Yoda so he can say some mad sagely shit.
"Lessons, you have learned" he tells us, and then proceeds to go round the younglings one by one pointing out what we gained from the cave. How does he even know what happened. maybe the Master's stream the gathering so they can all get a laugh.
Slowly pacing past me, Laila, Ashoka and Knox he sluggishly spoke "Trust in others, trust in yourself, Humility and flexibility" gaining nods from each one of us.
"Make your lightsabers, you will. Follow your escort to the crucible, you must" waving Vebb back over to take us to the crucible for make our lightsabers.
Leaving yoda at the temple all of the clan make our way over to the the old republic ship, on the way over Knox was basically wanking over the thought of building a lightsaber, Like mate chill out a bit we're all excited but no need to get your tentacles in a twist.
Seeing the Crucible again I have to admit that star ships are cool as hell. I mean who wouldn't like a flying laser spraying death machine that can just into hyperspace at a moments notice. The Crucible was a beast of a ship, one of the biggest ones I've seen since I came to the temple at Coruscant. It was a paladin-class corvette, 99 meters long, has 5 sub-light thrusters and still works after a thousand years too boot. If that's not good maintenance I don't know what is.
Reaching the ship Vebb presses a few button on his wrist-controller which allows the landing ramps to unfold and extend from the ship. He then tell us "Youngling, find a seat on the ship and wait for us too leave the atmosphere. Once we leave I will introduce you to someone who will aid you in making your lightsabers" earning a cheer from the still overexcited younglings.
Strapping myself in next to Ashoka, Knox and Laila Knox your can't hold his excitement in any longer. Exploding with a flurry of questions "Do you guys know what kind of lightsaber you want? What colour do you think the crystal will turn? What about the person Padawan Vebb said he'd introduce us to? Do you think he's a jedi?".
Fucking hell that's a lot to take but in thankfully before more questions were asked Ashoka wacked his head and said "Calm down Knox you'll find out soon enough, If your too excited it'll be harder for you to create your lightsaber".
Knox calming down a bit but still having a fanatic twinkle in his eye told us "Sorry, I'm just so excited. I've been dreaming of this day for year"
Looking at Knox "Aye and so have we, but you don't see any of us being a ballhair off having a heart attack" getting laughs from both Laila and Ashoka.
Still though Knox was jittery as fuck until Vebb cam back through and began to introduce the person who's going to help us, "Younglings of the Clawmouse clan, I introduce you to Huyang" on cue a droid that loosely resembled an old man with a backpack.
"I really am getting too old for this, I wonder if can get a replacement so I can retire." Huyang thought out loud.
No fucking way man, the droid actually sounds like David Tennant. While I was trying to hold back my laughter Huyang explained to the younglings who he was. "I am Huyang, a Mark IV architect droid that has been helping jedi build their lightsabers on this ship for over a thousand years."
Damn makes me feel bad for the guy, imagine doing the same shit for thousands of years. I'd be gagging for someone to cut of my power supply.
Vebb tells the younglings "Now everyone is acquainted, we shall start the lesson now. Please place your kyber crystals on the table" as we do that Huyang uses a holoprojector that is build into his body to show us many different lightsaber hilts that have previously been made.
Before I even got my crystal I was already sure of what I wanted my lightsaber to be like. Even if they somehow didn't have the correct pieces to make it the Jedi's at the temple will have the gear for me to finish it.
Huyang goes round everyone and asks what lightsaber they want to build before taring he ship apart trying to find the pieces for the saber the youngling wanted.
This droid needs some help, can the republic not send a couple of cleaning droids to help the guy out. It must be a pain in the ass having to clean an entire ship yourself.
Eventually Huyang gets round to asking me what I wanted "Wow such a big youngling you are, I've never seen one of your species so large at this age. Any what do you desire your lightsaber to be like". I gave him the run down of what functions I wanted my saber to have.
The base forms going to be a dual bladed saberstaff but they will also be able to split into two separate weapons easily, so you can change between the two states at a moments notice. Being able to change my weapon quickly will make my form 7 fighting even more unpredictable, while also giving me the option to change to dual weapons when in tight areas where a saberstaff would be too long to use properly.
"My, my that's quite the lightsaber you intend on making. Luckily I appear to have something that would do the job" leaving for a minute Huyang came back with two boxes and said, "You will have to take some materials from this second box to modify the base design of the dual bladed lightsaber to allow for the quick transition from staff to dual blades. But don't worry I'll help you with that to make sure you don't blow yourself up."
Nodding at the droid I gratefully say "Thank you" and bring my kit over to a work station to leave it before going back to the main table with the other younglings. When everyone finished with their preparations Huyang asked us a question about our kyber crystals.
"Now do any of you younglings know how to awaken the force within a kyber crystal" getting no answers the droid then explains, "What you have to do to awaken the force within it is channel the force through your body and from there to the crystal. Not hard right, sadly I can't give you an example since as you can see, I'm a droid".
Doing what Huyang said I place a crystal in each hand and begin to let the force flow from my body into the crystals. As this is happening, all around the room the previously plain crystals began to light up in several different shades of blue and green. Continuing to channel force through my crystals they both began to light up in a brilliant purple colour. Opening my eyes I get a look at my awakened crystals.
Impressive was the only way to describe them, a neon purple sheen permeating through the smooth surface of the crystal. Purple then eh, honestly I've never had much of a preference for lightsaber colours, as long as it wasn't green it'd be all good.
Huyang eyed everyone crystals before looking at mine, "What a rare colour you have there, it suits a strange one like you" he spoke intrigued at the purple crystal. "Now youngling go back to you workstations with your crystals and follow the instructions to create your lightsaber.
Sitting down at my workstation I begin to modify the design but not before checking to see what colours everyone else got. Ashoka and Knox both ended up with the green and blue lightsaber that had in cannon, while Laila ended up with a slightly rarer yellow crystal that wasn't given much context. I'm pretty sure Plo Koon has one though.
Modifying the parts that needed to be changed I call Huyang over to check, giving me the green light I finally begin to use the force to piece together my lightsaber.
Around half an hour later I finished and got the professor to give it a final check before igniting it. No chance I'm risking dying here after waiting this long.
"Well done youngling, this is impressive work right here. You may ignite it but make sure your careful, there's not a lot of space here on the ship so don't go about swinging it willy nilly"
Nodding I reach for my freshly build lightsaber, grasping the hilt I then ignite my saber for the very first time. With an audible buzzing noise the saber staff ignites and purple layer of plasma extends from the hilt, lighting up the surroundings in a purple glow.
Admiring what I made for a bit longer I twisted the hilt in opposite directions with my two hands causing the staff to split into two separate weapons. Giving them a few quick swings, I must say they felt great. Having a real lightsaber feels totally different from those training sabers. Just the fact that I knew what I was holding was mine gave me a sense of euphoria, felt like I finally accomplished something meaningful after all the training I went through.
Turning to look a Huyang who was still watching me with my weapon, I extinguish my blade and reconnect the hilts together. "Cheers for helping me make these, I appreciate it" prompting a laugh to escape the droids speakers, "Don't worry young one it was my pleasure to finally see someone make something other than the typical jedi weapon". Giving him one last nod of thanks I leave the room to find a seat and await my return to Coruscant.
With a large grin on my face I thought about how I was going to get some real saber combat at the youngling tournament.